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Bluetooth Radio with AVIATION INTERRUPT™

Sporty’s Air Scan® Aviation Radio/Scanner gives pilots and aviation buffs two radios in one. With our exclusive Aviation Interrupt feature, you can listen to a ball game, talk radio, or music and never miss an aviation transmission. Equipped with Bluetooth, the Air Scan can easily pair with a phone or iPad for playing music from your favorite app. Perfect for your home office, the desk at your FBO, or your workbench in the hanga...

Bluetooth Radio with AVIATION INTERRUPT™

Sporty’s Air Scan® Aviation Radio/Scanner gives pilots and aviation buffs two radios in one. With our exclusive Aviation Interrupt feature, you can listen to a ball game, talk radio, or music and never miss an aviation transmission. Equipped with Bluetooth, the Air Scan can easily pair with a phone or iPad for playing music from your favorite app. Perfect for your home office, the desk at your FBO, or your workbench in the hangar, the Air Scan is an easy way to monitor aviation traffic while still listening to your favorite music.

Memory

Store up to 10 different frequencies from each tunable source using the Preset feature. This allows you to quickly scroll through your local frequencies without having to type them in every time. The 10 aviation presets are used for Aviation Interrupt feature.

Aviation Interrupt™

While listening to your favorite AM/FM station or Bluetooth/Aux source, the Air Scan silently scans up to 10 preset channels for activity. When a signal is detected on any of these channels it interrupts the music and plays the aviation transmission. When the transmission ends, the Air Scan returns to the music.

Bluetooth/Aux In

Don’t want to listen to FM or AM radio stations? Use the Bluetooth feature to pair your phone or tablet to the radio for listening with your favorite app. You can also use a standard 3.5 aux input cable (sold separately) to plug in your phone or iPad if it has a 3.5mm headphone jack.

External SpeakerUse the 3.5mm headphone jack to connect the Air Scan to external speakers. Here at Sporty's Pilot Shop, we connect an Air Scan to the ramp speakers so linemen never miss a radio call. Also great for surround sound systems or noise canceling headphones.

Programming the AirScan radio is similar to programming a car radio. To save a frequency to a preset location:

After turning the Air Scan on, choose the source of the frequency you want to store (AM, FM, or Airband).

Type in the frequency you wish to store.

Press the preset button once to enter into preset mode.

Press and hold the number of preset location where you want to store the frequency.

After holding the number for 2 seconds, the Air Scan will beep and exit preset mode, indicating that the frequency was stored correctly.

To recall a preset frequency:

After turning the Air Scan on, choose the source type of the frequency you want recall (AM, FM, or Airband).

Press the preset button once to enter into preset mode.

Press the number of the preset location you wish to access.

Air Scan will automatically exit preset mode after 3 seconds on inactivity.

Pro Tip:

Reception for scanners is mostly based on line-of-sight. Scanners located deep inside metal buildings will have poor reception. Two rules of thumb for antenna placement: (1) The higher the better and (2) Outside is better than inside. If you are 10 miles from an airport in a hilly area or there are many tall buildings between you and the airport, you probably won't get the control tower. However, you may hear aircraft in the pattern. Testing at Sporty's revealed that we could get transmissions over 25 miles away with an Air Scan in the third-floor control tower. At ground level, 15 miles was common for planes at 1000 AGL. Remote antennas can improve your reception. Learn more about reception and external antenna options in this article.

Also, be sure to set your squelch properly, so as not to block out radio calls. The right setting is just high enough to cut out static, but no higher.

We have enjoyed using this device in our airport restaurant. The aviation interrupt feature is key to allowing folks to listen to the AM/FM radio without missing ATCT transmissions.They know when to look up from their meal to observe aircraft operations.

Thank you for the review. Scan memory channels is done by using the Aviation Interrupt function. While on any source, simply press the Aviation Interrupt button and the unit scans your memory channels.

April 9, 2019

Doug R

Durability

1 / 5

Reliability

1 / 5

Performance

1 / 5

Ease Of Use

3 / 5

Value

3 / 5

Would You Recommend?

No

I Returned it and revived full credit - including shipping. it did not have good reception and Tried several busy frequencies - no reception. May have been defective.

Is there a way to scan only the preset channels instead of the entire aviation frequency band? I know that if your listening to another radio source it will do that with aviation interrupt on but I was wondering if you could just keep the scanner searching the preset channels only.

BEST ANSWER:Yes, set the frequencies in the presets 0-9 and then press the aviation interrupt. It will scan only the present channels. Please note that the frequencies do not change when scanning. The display will just read interrupt on.

BEST ANSWER:Yes, set the frequencies in the presets 0-9 and then press the aviation interrupt. It will scan only the present channels. Please note that the frequencies do not change when scanning. The display will just read interrupt on.

Suppose it sits on your desk and paired to your phone, can you use the AirScan as a speakerphone? Obviously it would need to have a microphone for that. This would be a pretty cool feature, and the keypad just looks right to dial a phone number!

A shopper
on Nov 13, 2017

BEST ANSWER:The radio is a streaming device only. You can not use the phone like you would with a hands free device.

Why does this product show a star rating indicating 25 reviews, but when I click on reviews is says there are no reviews? Not buying this without being able to see the reviews.

A shopper
on Feb 25, 2019

BEST ANSWER:The reviews are located at the bottom of the products page. When I click on the read reviews it took me to the bottom of the page. If you are still unable to view the reviews please let me know which web browser you are using so that I may have the IT department look into this.

BEST ANSWER:The reviews are located at the bottom of the products page. When I click on the read reviews it took me to the bottom of the page. If you are still unable to view the reviews please let me know which web browser you are using so that I may have the IT department look into this.

Assuming "air frequencies" means the aircraft band, my question is concerning external connections for the AM/FM bands. The item description does say there is a BNC connection for the air frequencies, but no mention of the AM/FM bands.

Assuming "air frequencies" means the aircraft band, my question is concerning external connections for the AM/FM bands. The item description does say there is a BNC connection for the air frequencies, but no mention of the AM/FM bands.

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